Christina Severin is President and CEO of Community Care Cooperative (C3) since the organization’s launch in 2016. She is a leading health care executive with more than 20 years of experience and numerous accomplishments in managed care, delivery systems, health insurance, Accountable Care Organizations, quality, public policy, and public health.
Widely recognized for her achievements, she was honored for her leadership of a Top 100 Women-Led Business by the Boston Globe in 2019 and 2015, and named a “40 Under 40” honoree by The Boston Business Journal in 2013.
Christina’s prior leadership experience includes serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization and as President of Network Health, a nonprofit Massachusetts health plan.
She earned a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Health Services from Boston University School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Christina lives in Jamaica Plain, MA with her husband, where they are coming to terms with becoming empty nesters.
While sticking with fee-for-service is doubling-down on a losing bet, primary care capitation is a far more rational payment model that can help bring equity to healthcare.